God has prepared me my entire life for something like this. The way He works in everyone is different. For me, when one things in my life changes, the rest of it changes, too. Between suddenly going from two roommates to none, changing jobs, and many other things I kind of knew this was coming – I just didn’t envision something this drastic this fast.
Let me lay out the timeline of how fast everything with The World Race has happened:
August 31-September 5 – medical missions trip in Nicaragua
September 5-8 – sick as a dog and really considered going to the ER (and I am a nurse who hates hospitals!)
September 9 (tuesday) – find out about The World Race Spanish Route and realize the application is due monday (September 15)
September 10 (wednesday) – tell parents about the trip
September 12 (friday) – complete application
September 15 (monday) – complete online interview questions
September 17 (wednesday) – get a call that I am accepted! Freak out, call a friend and my sister to help me with my freak out (I swear I went through every emotion a person can have in that day – ecstatic, terrified, tearful over giving my life up…you name it, it was there)
September 18 (thursday) – I officially call Adventures in Missions and tell them I accept!
September 22 (monday) – the trip is officially going (there was question over this because there are not as many people as originally planned)
So, as you can see things happened really fast! Between finding out about the race and it officially given the official go-ahead was less than 2 weeks!
So lets go back to the Nicaragua missions trip and the irony of this all happening. The thursday before we left to come back to the states we were debriefing and talking about re-entry (reverse culture shock, etc). I spoke on not making any life-changing decision within a few weeks of coming back. Well God sure has a sense of humor because 3 weeks later and I am submitting my resignation at work so I can go travel the world and serve those that need it most while sharing the gospel the entire way!
The verse that God keeps posting on my heart since the first night I heard about The World Race is Proverbs 19:21 Many are the plans in a man’s heart, but it is the LORD’s purpose that prevails
I am comforted by the fact that there have been so many doors that God could have closed during this short period of time, but he continues to leave them wide-open…all I have to do is walk/crawl through them. Do I still have anxiety and fear? Yes! Am I still worried about how much money I need to raise in such a short period of time? Yes! Do I feel satan sneaking up to attack me every single day? Yes! But I know God would not have left all the doors gaping open if I wasn’t supposed to do this.
